linking INTEGRITY

Integrity - use of values or principles to guide action in the situation at hand.

Below are links and discussion related to the values of freedom, hope, trust, privacy, responsibility, safety, and well-being, within business and government situations arising in the areas of security, privacy, technology, corporate governance, sustainability, and CSR.

Nobel Institute, 20.12.03

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"We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not
principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without
conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those
idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the
description supplied by Shaw: "smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out
of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.
Compromise need not mean cowardice. .."